"With Bitcasa, The Entire Cloud Is Your Hard Drive For Only $10 Per Month"
I’m not sure this passes the sniff test, especially given this (italics on both mine):
When you save a file, Bitcasa writes those 1’s and 0’s to its server-side infrastructure in the cloud. It doesn’t know anything about the file itself, really. It doesn’t see the file’s title or know its contents. It doesn’t know who wrote the file. And because the data is encrypted on the client side, Bitcasa doesn’t even know what it’s storing.
and this:
and the pricing! How on earth is it so cheap? That’s the easy part, actually. Explains Bitcasa CEO Tony Gauda, $10/month still gives the company large margins. The fact is, 60% of your data is duplicate. If you have an MP3 file, someone else probably has the same one, for example. Each person only tends to have around 25 GB of unique, personal data, he says. Using patented de-duplication algorithms, compression techniques and encryption, Bitcasa keeps costs down (way, way down, but that’s it’s secret sauce), which is what makes it so affordable. Bitcasa also explained that a freemium model is on its way with less-than-unlimited storage for free.
Either Bitcasa doesn’t know what it’s storing, or it saves space by analyzing what it’s storing. It can’t do both.
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dwineman liked this
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beigeinside said:
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
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punkassjim said:
It’s above my skill-level to understand fully, but doesn’t every uploaded file have an MD5 hash that they can compare? That seems to be the norm for services like these, and I do believe the system can’t tell what exactly it’s dealing with.
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do-over said:
Something’s fishy right there, hoss. It can’t identify duplicate anything unless is analyzes the material.
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penllawen said:
I agree with your reasoning. Very odd. (Or fraudulent.)
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